SWANA SOURCE

Tracking: swanasource / Run by @akajustmerry & @thatidomagirl, SWANA SOURCE is dedicated to promoting & appreciating the careers of South West Asian and North African public figures. If there is someone you'd like us to post, shoot us an ask 🙏🏽♥️

[diioonysus]

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[ueberdemnebelmeer]

My cinematic generation didn’t just come up with a topic or address an issue, but I can safely state that we managed to establish our own language. And this wasn’t a traditional language. […] With al-Leil I had an opportunity to lay the foundation for a structure that was entirely mine. I dedicated 20 years of my life to talking about this ancestral home of mine, Quneitra, with all its nightmares and dreams, with every vision that I developed into film, and carried from one film to another, with the purpose of composing a visual, sentimental and personal work. This is, as Tarkovsky calls it, a carving of history. This is a search for time from a personal perspective, not just a historical perspective. To me, the time of that vague love for the ancestral home, towards the mother and the lost father, and to the political era, which is also lost, or Quneitra in al-Leil – all of this is an attempt to express that pain, that loss, which pierces your connection to reality with the peculiar flavours of alienation and longing.

—MOHAMMAD MALAS in The Cinema of Muhammad Malas: Vision of a Syrian Auteur, edited by Samirah Alkassim, Nezar Andary (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018)

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

Vincent Cassel and Saïd Taghmaoui in La Haine, 𝟣𝟫𝟫𝟧.

[yourdailyqueer]

Colette Tchantcho

Gender: Non binary - Genderfluid (they/them)

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: N/A

Ethnicity: Cameroonian, Kuwaiti

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actress

[greatestmusicvideoz]

Ladaniva - “Saraiman” (2026)

[lemaldusiecle]

Repose en paix, dear Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026).

You were my goal during my teenage years. Photographs by Rahi Rezvani 🖤

[prdzx]

Incendies by Dennis Villeneuve 2011 feat. Lubna Azabal

[slashericons]

Samantha Gravinsky — Faces of Death (2026)

[anthonysperkins]

Omar Sharif as Ahmed صراع في الوادي / The Blazing Sun (1954) dir. Youssef Chahine

[deadlinecom]

Tarek Al Arian Hits Cannes With Project Inspired by High Society Killer Marguerite Alibert & Sons of Rizk Prequel

EXCLUSIVE: Tarek Al Arian,  who is best known for Arabic-language The Ladder and The Snake and Sons of Rizk franchises, is developing a drama about infamous early 20th Century French courtesan Marguerite Alibert. Alibert gained notoriety for her affair with the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII and then Duke of Windsor, in 1917 […]

[jellco]

SOFIA CARSON "The Devil Wears Prada 2" Premiere in New York (April 2026)

[smsomah]

Northern mountains of Yemen, 1977. She wears the juice of pulverized leaves as a cosmetic and for protection against the sun. Scanned from the book Silver Treasures from the Land of Sheba; 2014; Marjorie Ransom

[sircolinmorgan]

FREEMA AGYEMAN as MARTHA JONES in DOCTOR WHO.

[dare-g]

Avetik (1992)

[samijey]

Sami Zayn - Royal Rumble 2026

[her-tear]

Anok Yai with her parents, Nyibol Akuei and Kenyang Yai for British Vogue June Issue Photographed by Rafael Pavarotti Styled by Kate Phelan

[mancandykings]

Ahmed Al-Riyahi via Instagram